Cookbooks everywhere. I have too many cookbooks. My 90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge is unearthing another runaway collection. Read my 90-Day Summer Simplifying Manifesto!!
A Recovering Magpie’s Cookbooks
Guess what today’s box contained? More cookbooks! I have been collecting cookbooks for years. I have not counted them (that could be a good task for HIMself) as yet. The must be over 200…maybe more. When I collect…I do it with a vengeance. I want it all! I want it now! I want it better! I want it bigger! I want the rare…the unloved…the well-loved. You get the picture. Hundreds, even thousands.
My 90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge is taking a close look at my habits and rituals of collecting. I would call is amassing, even curating a collection worthy of the title of Museum of Cookbooks. Tat might not be so bad, except I have several collections of equal size. I could stock several museums… {insert sheepish grin here!}
{Coming clean} I have a cookbook issue!
My Summer Simplifying Challenge
Therein lies the challenge behind the Summer Simplifying Challenge! This obsessive need to gather large quantities of things I love brought me to this coming to Jesus meeting with myself. I am not satisfied with one or three of something…I want all of them.
I should say, “I wanted them all.” My 90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge has begun to take care of this obsessive behavior. I don’t break for every Thrift Store and Goodwill, yard and garage sale anymore. I am recovering and the Summer Simplifying Challenge is my rehab!
Today’s Accomplishments
- One box, sorted and things placed into the ‘outta here’ boxes!
- The house is clean and orderly.
Today’s Setbacks
- Getting frustrated with myself when I opened that box!!
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